Estimated effect of breast self-examination and routine physician examinations on breast-cancer mortality.

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Published in N Engl J Med on August 10, 1978

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P Greenwald, P C Nasca, C E Lawrence, J Horton, R P McGarrah, T Gabriele, K Carlton

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